Here’s a little tidbit that I never knew until I had an Apache2 name-based virtual host problem: httpd -S lists the vhosts that are being served by Apache, and how they were parsed from the config files.

The output on one of my servers looks something like:

[root@web2 …

At $WORK, the subnet we use for some of our workstations and test boxes was only recently setup with DHCP. Previously, we’d used IP-by-Whiteboard in the office. As a result, most of the recent machines use DHCP, but there are a few older ones still around using static …

Recently I was doing some work on a few PHP scripts, and came by a rather annoying error while trying to commit to subversion:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Working copy '/srv/www/htdocs/newcall/stats/generated' is missing or not locked

The problem was a directory, “generated”. This …

Interesting Links for Tuesday, January 26^th 2010

• Jan. 25, 1979: Robot Kills Human
• Lawyers Challenge $54,000 P2P Fine As Unconstitutional
• Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet Access
• Linux performance: is Linux becoming just too slow and bloated?
• Mr. Edison’s Kindle: Fifteen amazing gadget ideas that were way, way …

Being a volunteer EMT, and at times an outdoorsy-type person, I occasionally get emails from friends about disaster-related topics. Especially in the post-9/11 days. Recently, I got an email asking me if I’d seen the Department of Homeland Security’s disaster preparedness site, ready.gov. I’d heard …

So, I updated my Droid to Android 2.0.1 today. I’ll be honest that it didn’t work the way I’d hoped. When I woke up this morning (December 10^th 2009) I had an alert dialog on screen telling me that an update was ready. It …

Last week I happened to find a Barnes & Noble gift card in my wallet, with $75 left on it. What a wonderful discovery! One of the pile of books that I ordered was The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain. I’d fully intended …

This is a follow-up to my Making maps from GIS data with Inkscape post. After playing around with Inkscape for quite a while, and coming up with the dismal results seen in that post, I decided there has to be an easier way. A little Googling turned up this video …

NOTE- I more or less dropped this project, in favor of a more precise approach, as outlined in Using Google Maps to produce usable, printable maps. This is being left just to give other people ideas.

Background

I was recently asked by one of the officers of our volunteer fire …

If you’ve used Google search from an Android device to search for a business, you’ve probably noticed the two interesting “buttons” to the right of the search listing - “Get Directions” and a button for the phone number. It turns out, these are pretty easy to implement.

The “Get …